Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-04-30

twenty to twenty-five shots. In the meantime the fireman and myself were covered by a man on each side of the banks; then four of them came down. | TWO on each side. Two came to the ganRway Of the engine, one on each slGe, having two revolvers each. The maG on the left side said "G-i d-p !oui get down." l did so and he put 6 gisnt cartridge in my right hand and the tsd lantern ID my left, and said, "Tske 'hst and light it and put fl in the ex- press car, He marched me to the car win ms revolvers in hand, while ihe other covered the fireman. l told him it was no use to do this Gs 1 could get the men out of the cars without hurting any one. l got the mail agent to come oui by telling hIm what was up. was then taken tO the express car and told, NOW d-D you, get that man out of that car, or I'll kiI you" I told the express messenger to open his doors, and get our, Hs l had giGnt cartridge in my hand and was covered with revOlvers: if nc dld n"s open the car he would be blown up and both of Us killed; that they were putting a dynamite cartridge on The platform" They had, in the mean time. made the mail agent fill bucket with sand, m which they put q giant cartridge. but when one of the robbers tried to hyht it the wind blew it ont. Ibe express agent got out, and they stood ms all up and searched ms; two men cov- cred us with revolyers and one searched IFS. They took SIP in cash from ne. ou; returned my knife and keys; do net know how much they got from inc others.
 They then marched me 10 tine engine. 70 see bon, the water n the eugire, Tor ! told them it needed it. When We got therf be said there was enough there ls De looked Bt the gauge, showing that De had been on an engine before. He sad, Il suppose you recognize Us fgl- lows" I said ''no; I don't recognize my body; am doing vbat am told tO do."
 One man then took the fireman back tO cut tEe train bgtween the express car and the sleeper, leaving the engine mail and express ears. The lire man, John Clancy, said be did not know how to do II; so they took hIm back and made me do r., After uu- coupling l asked permission t0 put the brakes on thc sleeper to told It and .hsy allowed me C. io SD. Then | ysas taken back to the engine and tho others were all pnt of and held under guard. ! was ordered to move fwo csrs Gheai,ani again still further ahead | wGs then taken to the relr end of the express car, but was called back for the reason they could not start the engine gs had left lt fixed wrong. l was then made to show them how to work the lev CTS and tten was told tn start ,. easy and after it Was gong tl jump ofT, winch did. As the express ear passed me, ore of the robbers standing on the resr platform bade me a pleasant good nigh. I then went back to the train, got lamp and started with NIT. Bgrnhart the bridge builder, the express messeu- ger and mail agent down the track after the engine and Car-. When We overlook them one mlle west of PspRCo ststiou, the robbers bad left and the en- zine Was dead, the throttle wide open and the headlight out.
 We found registered letters, some of them siill unopened, money and mer- chants samples lying around the engine and on ,he tender. Ny gold watch ID my box. and the firemsn's money, about :20, in hIs box. were not discovered by the robbers. All ths gang wore black mGsks, a1d l only say four of them.